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...It’s hard to avoid tracing the similarities, though, and despite what Viswanathan has said, one must wonder, is Opal actually self-referential—a sort of “Mehta”-fiction? Where does its plot end and Viswanathan’s real life begin...
...American federal debt ceiling to nearly $9 trillion. Despite chiding Senators in his first speech as President in 2001 to pay down $2 trillion in debt over ten years, this is the fourth time during his administration that the ceiling has been raised, rather than lowered, in order to avoid default. Times have changed, says the Bush administration, our country is at war. Indeed times have changed. But this war is being conducted in a manner that intentionally avoids asking most Americans to make a sacrifice. Instead, the administration has chosen to exploit America’s youth...
...While political groups like the Undergraduate Council (UC), the Institute of Politics, the Dems and others would have trouble mimicking the appeal of single-race or single-gender groups, they would do well to look to examples of initiatives that have successfully drawn students who generally avoid political groups to invest in their cause. The Student Labor Action Movement, for instance, has rallied members of groups who have been traditionally under-represented in political organizations; groups focusing on AIDS, prison reform, poverty, housing policy, and divestment from Sudan have achieved similar results by taking direct action on political issues...
...books,” said Amadi P. Anene ’08, a UC representative who sponsored the act. STOP Campaign Co-Director Chaz M. Beasley ’08 said that lower-income students face a double burden of high textbooks costs—they may need to avoid courses with particularly expensive course literature, and when those courses are required, they often must rely on library reserves or fellow classmates for course materials.“We want to make sure, above all, that those costs don’t act as an impediment to academic success...
...January 2005 election brought a religious Sh'ite coalition to power, Sunnis allege, he began remaking the paramilitary National Police into Shi'ite shock troops. A member of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), Jabr fled to Iran in the 1970s to avoid Saddam's crackdown. Jerry Burke, a former civilian senior police advisor to the Interior Ministry, said Jabr's experience with Saddam's government has left him bitter and distrustful of anyone he suspects has ties to the previous regime. That would most certainly include the former members of Saddam Hussein...